“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“An emotional debt is hard to square.”
― Pimp: The Story of My Life
― Pimp: The Story of My Life
“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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